Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acclaimed as a Pre-Raphaelite painter by this school 's chief commentator W. M. Rossetti [ q.v. ] in 1871 , she became during the 1870s a recognized member of that group of artists seen by critics to be following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v. ] and Burne-Jones . |
| 2 | The UN World Food Programme , approached by the Sudanese a week earlier , had reportedly already delivered 19,000 tonnes . |
| 3 | The result was a desolation of the environment and the spirit ; identikit Gulag estates , ravaged and abandoned inner cities , stifling individuality , deadening the imagination and provoking in the young an instinctive if unarticulated rage against their surroundings . |
| 4 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 5 | But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle . |
| 6 | But he sat there three hours on the motorway waiting for the bloody A A man to find him and , apparently he did n't find it , could n't find him sa cos he rang back he said , look there 's no one come yet ! |
| 7 | There are various ways about that as there are with many road schemes er where there are structure plan policies for a particular scheme and there are arrows on key diagrams , there are many ways of getting from A to B er they are not er in terms of outer and inner , they are going from the same A to B. They they start and finish at the same locations , it is just a different way of getting from A to B. Which quite properly as I understand it would be a matter for debate er either at the local plan or if a planning application is made er earlier than that er then at a at a planning enquiry into the specific road proposal . |
| 8 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
| 9 | Erm , you could have got to the close a little bit earlier , but then it , I think you were just finding your words , that was good , well done . |
| 10 | We left the Daro river next day and arrived at the Awash a fortnight later . |
| 11 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 12 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 13 | The Louvre has agreed to extend to the Metropolitan a long-term loan of two glazed-brick murals depicting archers , from a sixth-century Achaemenid palace at Susa . |
| 14 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 15 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 16 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 17 | A large collection of modern texts set to traditional chants is to be found in the recent An English Kyriale . |
| 18 | Both were compatible with the republican-radical ideals which made up the official ideology of the Third Republic and which in 1880 meant in the main a deep distrust of Russia , the oppressor of the Poles . |
| 19 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 20 | Some unconfirmed reports listed among the dead a Kurdish Workers ' Party ( KWP or PKK ) leader , Dr Baran , described as responsible for planning guerrilla operations from Syrian-supported training camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon . |
| 21 | Against this background there emerged in the 1620s a new series of troubles in this ‘ quiet commonwealth ’ , the religious and social disagreements which culminated in the Civil Wars of the 1640s . |
| 22 | True religion may be said to add to the spiritual a conscious relationship to the Source of the spiritual . |
| 23 | For some combinations of a and b there is more than one possible stable solution : two different periodic solutions , obtained with the same a and b , but different initial conditions , are seen in Figs. 2.20d and e . |
| 24 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 25 | I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region . |
| 26 | She had to the last a youthful enthusiasm , an erect carriage , and a firm step . |
| 27 | The white will always tend to show through the black a little and vice versa , so let it . |
| 28 | It would be possible to attempt such theoretical development by conceptual analysis , in order to produce in the abstract a theoretical structure , which could then be tested empirically . |
| 29 | Because Kate also knows that if this had happened she would have returned from the Common an hour or so later to find the carrots unchopped , the potatoes unpeeled and the lamb burned . |
| 30 | The oboe in unison with the clarinet imparts to the latter a cutting edge , and the resulting sound is quite agreeable in small quantities . |